1. Shun-Ichi. Amari and H. Nagaoka. Methods of Information Geometry. Oxford University Press, 1993.
   Keywords: mathematics, geometry, statistics.
   

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   author = {Amari, Shun-Ichi. and Nagaoka, H.},
   editor = {American Mathematical Society},
   title = {Methods of Information Geometry},
   publisher = {Oxford University Press},
   year = {1993},
   rating = {B},
   keywords = {mathematics, geometry, statistics} 
   }
   

1. Daniel C. Dennett. Quining Qualia. Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 1993.
   Keywords: philosophy, qualia.

   Abstract: "Qualia" is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us. As is so often the case with philosophical jargon, it is easier to give examples than to give a definition of the term. Look at a glass of milk at sunset; the way it looks to you--the particular, personal, subjective visual quality of the glass of milk is the quale of your visual experience at the moment. The way the milk tastes to you then is another, gustatory quale, and how it sounds to you as you swallow is an auditory quale; These various "properties of conscious experience" are prime examples of qualia. Nothing, it seems, could you know more intimately than your own qualia; let the entire universe be some vast illusion, some mere figment of Descartes' evil demon, and yet what the figment is made of (for you) will be the qualia of your hallucinatory experiences. Descartes claimed to doubt everything that could be doubted, but he never doubted that his conscious experiences had qualia, the properties by which he knew or apprehended them.

   
   

   Comments: Critique de la qualia. Relations subjective interpersonnelles impossible, relation subjective intrapersonnelle impossible par le même argument (moi temps t0 et moi temps t1 aussi différent que moi et lui temps t0): rapport qualia mémoire. Quelle est la signification, vis à vis de la qualia, de "ça a toujours le même gout mais je n'aime plus". Conclusion de Dennett : qualia essentiellement relationnelle.

   
   

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   AUTHOR = {Dennett, Daniel C.},
   TITLE = {Quining Qualia},
   JOURNAL = {Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science},
   YEAR = {1993},
   publisher = {MIT Press},
   url = {http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/quinqual.htm},
   abstract = { "Qualia" is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us. As is so often the case with philosophical jargon, it is easier to give examples than to give a definition of the term. Look at a glass of milk at sunset; the way it looks to you--the particular, personal, subjective visual quality of the glass of milk is the quale of your visual experience at the moment. The way the milk tastes to you then is another, gustatory quale, and how it sounds to you as you swallow is an auditory quale; These various "properties of conscious experience" are prime examples of qualia. Nothing, it seems, could you know more intimately than your own qualia; let the entire universe be some vast illusion, some mere figment of Descartes' evil demon, and yet what the figment is made of (for you) will be the qualia of your hallucinatory experiences. Descartes claimed to doubt everything that could be doubted, but he never doubted that his conscious experiences had qualia, the properties by which he knew or apprehended them.},
   comments = {Critique de la qualia. Relations subjective interpersonnelles impossible, relation subjective intrapersonnelle impossible par le même argument (moi temps t0 et moi temps t1 aussi différent que moi et lui temps t0): rapport qualia mémoire. Quelle est la signification, vis à vis de la qualia, de "ça a toujours le même gout mais je n'aime plus". Conclusion de Dennett : qualia essentiellement relationnelle. },
   keywords = {philosophy, qualia},
   rating = {B} 
   }
   

1. J. P. Olver, G. Sapiro, and A. Tannenbaum. Differential Invariant Signatures and Flows in Computer Vision: A Symmetry Group Approach. Technical report, University of Minnesota and MIT, 1993.
   Keywords: mathematics, geometry, ingeneering, artificial vision, Lie groups, invariants.

   Abstract: Computer vision deals with image understanding at various levels. At the low level, it addresses issues such us planar shape recognition and analysis. Some classical results on differential invariants associated to planar curves are relevant to planar object recognition under different views and partial occlusion, and recent results concerning the evolution of planar shapes under curvature controlled diffusion have found applications in geometric shape decomposition, smoothing, and analysis, as well as in other image processing applications. In this work we first give a modern approach to the theory of differential invariants, describing concepts like Lie theory, jets, and prolongations. Based on this and the theory of symmetry groups, we present a high level way of defining invariant geometric flows for a given Lie group. We then analyze in detail different subgroups of the projective group, which are of special interest for computer vision. We classify the corresponding invariant flows and show that the geometric heat flow is the simplest possible one. This uniqueness result, together with previously reported results which we review in this paper, confirms the importance of this class of flows.

   
   

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   author = {Olver, J. P. and Sapiro, G. and Tannenbaum, A.},
   title = {Differential Invariant Signatures and Flows in Computer Vision: A Symmetry Group Approach},
   institution = {University of Minnesota and MIT},
   year = {1993},
   abstract = {Computer vision deals with image understanding at various levels. At the low level, it addresses issues such us planar shape recognition and analysis. Some classical results on differential invariants associated to planar curves are relevant to planar object recognition under different views and partial occlusion, and recent results concerning the evolution of planar shapes under curvature controlled diffusion have found applications in geometric shape decomposition, smoothing, and analysis, as well as in other image processing applications. In this work we first give a modern approach to the theory of differential invariants, describing concepts like Lie theory, jets, and prolongations. Based on this and the theory of symmetry groups, we present a high level way of defining invariant geometric flows for a given Lie group. We then analyze in detail different subgroups of the projective group, which are of special interest for computer vision. We classify the corresponding invariant flows and show that the geometric heat flow is the simplest possible one. This uniqueness result, together with previously reported results which we review in this paper, confirms the importance of this class of flows.},
   url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3348},
   keywords = {mathematics, geometry, ingeneering, artificial vision, Lie groups, invariants},
   rating = {C} 
   }
   

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